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whunk, n. (and v.) rare.|hwʌnk|
Also whonk.
[Echoic.]
A dull hollow sound, as of a bullet striking something. Also as v. intr., to strike with a ‘whunk’.
App. only in the work of Hemingway.
1935E. Hemingway Green Hills Afr. ii. iii. 53 We had both heard the whunk of the bullet. Ibid. ii. iv. 76, I heard the whonk of the bullet. 1936― in Hearst's Internat. Sept. 168/1 He heard a whunk that meant that the bullet was home. Ibid. 170/3 Hearing the bullets whunk into him. |